⁶ if you do not oppress^(A) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood^(B) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods^(C) to your own harm,

¹⁰ These wicked people, who refuse to listen^(A) to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts^(B) and go after other gods^(C) to serve and worship them,^(D) will be like this belt—completely useless!^(E)

¹⁹ If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods^(A) and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.^(B)

²¹ “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner,^(A) for you were foreigners^(B) in Egypt.

²² “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.^{(C) 23} If you do and they cry out^(D) to me, I will certainly hear their cry.^{(E) 24} My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.^(F)

⁹ “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice;^(A) show mercy and compassion to one another.^{(B) 10} Do not oppress the widow^(C) or the fatherless, the foreigner^(D) or the poor.^(E) Do not plot evil against each other.’^(F)

¹¹ “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly^(G) they turned their backs^(H) and covered their ears.^{(I) 12} They made their hearts as hard as flint^(J) and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.^(K) So the Lord Almighty was very angry.^(L)

²⁸ the curse if you disobey^(A) the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods,^(B) which you have not known.

¹⁴ Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; ¹⁵ for the Lord your God^(A), who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after^(A) orphans and widows^(B) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.^(C)